Cabinet for trousers.



J. FINNELL & J. L. HAMILTON. CABINET FOR TROUSERS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.9,1912.

1 ,O48,400, Patented Dec..24, 1912.

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FINNELL AND JAMES L. HAMILTON, OF RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA.

CABINET FOR TROUSERS.

Application filed August 9,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1912.

1912. Serial No. 714,196.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, J OHN Fmnnm. and JAMES L. HAMILTON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Red Bluff, in the county of Tehama and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Cabinet for Trousers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention is designed to produce a cabinet to hold trousers in a novel manner to permit of a particular pair of trousers being readily removed without interference with the remaining trousers.

A further design of the invention is to provide a cabinet that will display the garments to an intending purchaser without removing the same from the cabinet.

A further design is to provide fixtures within the cabinet of a character to support a price and size ticket conspicuously so that the ticket may be observed by the salesman and the intending purchaser whereby the pattern of the garment, its price and size, may

be ascertained without removing the garment from the cabinet.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description hereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reterence indicate corresponding part-s in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cabinet embodying our invention, parts being broken away; Fig. 2 a transverse vertical section; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view given to show one of the individual fixtures for holding a pair of trousers", and Fig. 1 is a detail fragmentary view in perspective, given to show the means for holding a price and size ticket.

In constructing a cabinet in accordance with our invention, a rectangular body 10 is formed, the lower portion of which may, if desired, have a series of drawers 11 to hold small articles of wearing apparel. Above the drawers 11 is a horizontal partition 12 forming the bottom of the trousers cabinet, the top of which consists of a series of suitably hinged, glazed cover sections 13, through which the contents of the cabinet may be viewed. On the bottom 12 a series of longitudinal strips or cleats 1 1 are provided, which support individual arched fixtures 15. The fixtures 15 comprise a pair of standards 10, an outer cross bar 17 uniting said standards, the lower ends of the standards being out-turned to form lateral feet 18 which in the preferred form, are round in cross section and constitute journals which are received in bearing holes 19 in the strips 14, the arrangement being such that a fixture 15 may be rocked back or forth in the bearings 19 to facilitate the removal of a particular garment from a fixture. Furthern'iore the standards 16 are of spring material and may be pressed together to disengage the feet 18 from the bearings 19 and permit the complete fixture to be removed if desired. At the upper end of each fixture 15 and co-acting with the cross bar 17 thereof, a clamp 20 is provided, said clamp being in the form of a closed loop which is bent bodily into U form, one U bend 20 being hinged to the fixture 15 by depressing the cross bar 17 and so bending the merging portions of the said bar and standard 16 as to form an eye 16 in which the hinged U bend 20 of the clamp 20 has swinging movement in a vertical direction. The opposite end of the closed loop 20 is formed with a knob 20 or equivalent handle member, to be grasped by ones fingers to manipulate the clamp 20. In operation, a pair of trousers, as 21, is placed over the bar 17, and the clamp 20 having been placed on the cross bar 17, the clamp is swung downward on its hinge so that the side arms of the said clamp will spring over the trousers and the bar 17 and tightly grip the trousers below said bar at each side, as will readily be understood. The side of the fixture 15 opposite the hinge eye 16 is preferably given a rectangular shape at the angle where the standard 16 and cross bar 17 merge, as at 22, and over said square end fits the loop 23 of a ticket holder 24: that may receive a suitable ticket 25 hearing the price and size of the garment, the holder 24 having side and bottom flanges 26 to retain the ticket in place.

It will be seen that a prospective purchaser and the salesman may view, through the cover sections 13, the garment and its design, as well as the price and size. It is designed in practice to provide a transverse series of fixtures 15, so that a particular design may be displayed in several sizes, and the salesman can thus quickly ascertain whether a particular pattern is available in a size and price to suit a particular customer,

whereby a great deal of time is saved both parties, and the necessity of removing a garment is avoided, thereby preserving the garment against wrinkling, wear and dust incident to the constant removal and return of a garment to its place.

When it is desired to remove a garment from a fixture 15, the clamp 20 may be raised by means of knob 20 to release said garment.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The herein described fixture, comprising standards having members at the lower ends to support the same, a fixed cross bar uniting the standards at the upper end and de pressed below the tops of the standards, the

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in testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN FIN NELL. JAMES L. HAMILTON. Witnesses H. G. KUHN, E. H. E. SHIELDS.

addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 

